ILSSA LEAFLET SAMPLER
Local 347 Shop FS & Local 917 Shop RC
(Bridget Elmer & Emily Larned)
published by ILSSA, Impractical Labor in Service of the Speculative Arts
2008-2009
3 letterpress printed leaflets, 8 pages, 4.25 x 11 inches, and 1 8.5x11 letterpress & laser printed reversible poster, housed in a 9x12 letterpress printed envelope.
Impractical Labor in Service of the Speculative Arts (ILSSA) is a membership organization for those who make conceptual or experimental work with obsolete technology. The organization publishes original material on subjects of interest to its membership and the general public in the form of the "ILSSA Quarterly". Featured here are partial contents of the first two Quarterlies. Consider it an introduction to the concerns of Impractical Labor:
---->"The DIY Ethic & The Craft of Developing Self" theorizes that action is the key to happiness.
---->"What is Craft & why does it matter?" examines a roster of book titles containing the word and determines that craft is conscious, conscientious action.
---->"39 Kinds of Work" hypothesizes that all types of modern work are in fact derived from subsistence-based labor, and offers up the 39 Melachot as an index to our lives.
---->"The only freedom is freedom from want / Is freedom from want the only freedom" is a statement and a question embedded one within the other.
Each of the above items is designed, handset in lead type, and letterpress printed by its author.
BRIDGET ELMER is co-founder of Impractical Labor and sole proprietor of Flatbed Splendor. She is currently completing her thesis for the University of Alabama Book Arts MFA program while in residence at the Small Craft Advisory Press at Florida State University, where she is also adjunct faculty. She is a former president of the Booklyn board and former Assistant Director of Asheville BookWorks.
EMILY LARNED is co-founder of Impractical Labor and sole proprietor of Red Charming. Her work is collected and exhibited internationally. She received her MFA in Graphic Design from Yale School of Art in 2008, and is a former president of the Booklyn board. In Fall 2009 she begins her appointment as Assistant Professor of Graphic Design at the University of Bridgeport.
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